NIU’s Tera Lobdell broke her own single-season kills record, but the volleyball team couldn’t manage to win a single game in either of its matches this weekend.

Hoping to build on their win over Eastern Michigan on Wednesday, the Huskies (8-16 overall, 3-7 MAC) went on the road to try and get back to .500 in conference play.

Instead, NIU put together its worst offensive weekend of the season and got swept in three games by both Western Michigan (11-9, 5-4) and Ball State (15-6, 8-1).

“It was just a huge letdown for us,” Lobdell said. “We get that big win and then just get our butts kicked all weekend. It’s just our inconsistency.”

Against Eastern Michigan, NIU racked up 67 kills, but WMU was able to hold the NIU hitters to just 36 kills to win 30-25, 30-25, 30-20.

Lobdell was the only Huskie who had double-digit kills with 14, and that, combined with WMU’s .336 hitting percentage, made a long night for NIU, which never led in any game more than 14-13.

The lone bright spot in the box score for the Huskies was the six blocks apiece by Corinne Walsh and Kate McCullagh.

“We were overpowered,” Lobdell said. “It’s frustrating for the hitters when everything you hit gets dug up, and we just seemed to lose every rally.”

Trying to put the loss behind her, Lobdell came out and broke her record of 492 kills last season and became the first NIU hitter to get more than 500 kills in a season.

On her seventh swing in game one against Ball State, Lobdell rewrote the record books en route to 22 kills on the night and 508 on the season.

But just the same as the night before, the rest of the team failed to show up, and as no other NIU hitter managed more than seven kills, Ball State moved to the No. 1 spot in the MAC West with its 30-20, 30-27, 30-23 win.

“We just didn’t have the energy we had against [EMU],” Lobdell said. “We feed off each other’s energy when we play as a team, but until we start playing consistently as a team, we aren’t going to win any matches in a row.”